DELETE/BACKSPACE key paradox on RS/6000

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Fri Mar 15 07:15:13 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar14.173058.16978 at cs.utk.edu> jxt at cpdws1.ctd.ornl.gov (Tolliver J S) writes:
>machines, most of which use DELETE for the erase function. Here's a list:

I rather doubt that any of the UNIX variants you listed really would
default to use of ASCII DEL for the "erase" character, as long-standing
UNIX convention is to use DEL as the interrupt key.  Normal UNIX systems
have some initial terminal characteristics file that can be configured
to determine what the terminal handler is set to when a login occurs.
Check your System Administrator documentation to find out how to use this.



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